2016

Engineering a Better Heat Pump

With help from the University of Delaware, Xergy Inc., a high-tech startup in Seaford, Delaware, recently announced an innovative refrigeration system based on an electrochemical compressor to replace the conventional mechanical vapor compression systems found in typical heat pump units.

Riedo Leads Novel Study on Designing Reconfigurable Magnetic Nanopatterns

A team of international scientists led by researchers of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) and the Politecnico of Milan in Italy has demonstrated a novel approach for designing fully reconfigurable magnetic nanopatterns whose properties and functionality can be programmed and reprogrammed on-demand.

UT and ORNL Scientists Gain New Insights into Atomic Disordering of Complex Metal Oxides

A study led by the University of Tennesse-Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory could soon pay dividends in the development of materials with energy-related applications.

Building a Better Mousetrap, From the Atoms Up

For most of human history, the discovery of new materials has been a crapshoot. But now, UConn researchers have systematized the search with machine learning that can scan millions of theoretical compounds for qualities that would make better solar cells, fibers, and computer chips.

UT Researchers Help Search for Theoretical Particles

University of Texas at Austin researchers are hunting for an elusive subatomic particle called "neutrinos" after unexpected experimental results left the physics community puzzled.

University of Minnesota Receives Major U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Study Next Generation of Materials

The grant will be used to study materials at the most fundamental level that could improve important technologies including data storage, superconductors, fuel cells, and electrical power plants.

A Window Into Battery Life for Next-Gen Lithium Cells

A team of researchers at the University of Michigan are studing dendrites, whiskers of lithium that grow inside batteries and can cause fires like those in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that are the bane of next-generation lithium batteries.

Five Scientists Selected as FRIB Fellows

Five scientists have been selected as the first Facility for Rare Isotope Beams-Chinese Scholarship Council research fellows. The fellowship program is part of a memorandum of understanding agreed to between Michigan State University and China’s Peking University.

Stanford Researchers Help to Explain How Stars are Born and Cosmic Structures Evolve

Working with information sent from the Japanese Hitomi satellite, an international team of researchers that include Stanford scientists has obtained the first views of a supermassive black hole stirring hot gas at the heart of a galaxy cluster, like a spoon stirring cream into coffee.